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July 19th, 2012
08:18 AM ET
Chick-fil-A's marriage stance causing a social stormBy Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN)–The fact that Chick-fil-A is a company that espouses Christian values is no secret. The fact that its 1,600 fast-food chicken restaurants across the country are closed on Sundays has long been testament to that. But the comments of company President Dan Cathy about gay marriage to Baptist Press on Monday have ignited a social media wildfire. 10 religious companies (besides Chick-fil-A) "Guilty as charged,", Cathy said when asked about his company's support of the traditional family unit as opposed to gay marriage. Chick-fil-A controversy shines light on restaurant's Christian DNA "We are very much supportive of the family – the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that," Cathy is quoted as saying. CNN's This Just In Blog has the full social media reaction to the latest Chick-fil-A flap
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The positive response by those of us who stand on and believe in the same spiritual and moral values as Chick-fil-A is evident and nobody can deny it! My heart is full of joy and encouragement because of the unity being disployed by the Body of Christ! Let's continue to stand together strong in order to stay strong in these last days before our Lord returns! Be Blessed!!!
Romans 6:23 – For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
"I totally support Chic-Fil-A for they're stance and values on Christianity. As mirakellarmy stated marriage in the bible is between a man and a woman"
Some argue that since homosexual behavior is "unnatural" it is contrary to the order of creation. Behind this pronouncement are stereotypical definitions of masculinity and femininity that reflect rigid gender categories of patriarchal society. There is nothing unnatural about any shared love, even between two of the same gender, if that experience calls both partners to a fuller state of being. Contemporary research is uncovering new facts that are producing a rising conviction that homosexuality, far from being a sickness, sin, perversion or unnatural act, is a healthy, natural and affirming form of human sexuality for some people. Findings indicate that homosexuality is a given fact in the nature of a significant portion of people, and that it is unchangeable.
Our prejudice rejects people or things outside our understanding. But the God of creation speaks and declares, "I have looked out on everything I have made and `behold it (is) very good'." . The word (Genesis 1:31) of God in Christ says that we are loved, valued, redeemed, and counted as precious no matter how we might be valued by a prejudiced world.
There are few biblical references to homosexuality. The first, the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, is often quoted to prove that the Bible condemns homosexuality. But the real sin of Sodom was the unwillingness of the city's men to observe the laws of hospitality. The intention was to insult the stranger by forcing him to take the female role in the sex act. The biblical narrative approves Lot's offer of his virgin daughters to satisfy the sexual demands of the mob. How many would say, "This is the word of the Lord"? When the Bible is quoted literally, it might be well for the one quoting to read the text in its entirety.
Leviticus, in the Hebrew Scriptures, condemns homosexual behaviour, at least for males. Yet, "abomination", the word Leviticus uses to describe homosexuality, is the same word used to describe a menstruating woman. Paul is the most quoted source in the battle to condemn homosexuality ( 1 Corinthians 6: 9-11 and Romans 1: 26-27). But homosexual activity was regarded by Paul as a punishment visited upon idolaters by God because of their unfaithfulness. Homosexuality was not the sin but the punishment.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11, Paul gave a list of those who would not inherit the Kingdom of God. That list included the immoral, idolaters, adulterers, sexual perverts, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, and robbers. Sexual perverts is a translation of two words; it is possible that the juxtaposition of malakos, the soft, effeminate word, with arsenokoitus, or male prostitute, was meant to refer to the passive and active males in a homosexual liaison.
Thus, it appears that Paul would not approve of homosexual behavior. But was Paul's opinion about homosexuality accurate, or was it limited by the lack of scientific knowledge in his day and infected by prejudice born of ignorance? An examination of some of Paul's other assumptions and conclusions will help answer this question. Who today would share Paul's anti-Semitic attitude, his belief that the authority of the state was not to be challenged, or that all women ought to be veiled? In these attitudes Paul's thinking has been challenged and transcended even by the church! Is Paul's commentary on homosexuality more absolute than some of his other antiquated, culturally conditioned ideas?
Three other references in the New Testament (in Timothy, Jude and 2 Peter) appear to be limited to condemnation of male sex slaves in the first instance, and to showing examples (Sodom and Gomorrah) of God's destruction of unbelievers and heretics (in Jude and 2 Peter respectively).
That is all that Scripture has to say about homosexuality. Even if one is a biblical literalist, these references do not build an ironclad case for condemnation. If one is not a biblical literalist there is no case at all, nothing but prejudice born of ignorance, that attacks people whose only crime is to be born with an unchangeable sexual predisposition toward those of their own sex.
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Romans 1:24
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Romans 1:27
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
John 8:44
You are of your father, the devil, and it is your will to practice the lusts and gratify the desires [which are characteristic] of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a falsehood, he speaks what is natural to him, for he is a liar [himself] and the father of lies and of all that is false.
I totally support Chic-Fil-A for they're stance and values on Christianity. As mirakellarmy stated marriage in the bible is between a man and a woman. This world is becoming so corrupted, the devil is everywhere trying to bring down God and Christians and wipe out Christians. What would this world be without God? I wouldnt want to live in it thats forsure! Its an abomination for gay marriage to exist and be practiced, May Jesus name be proclaimed through all the earth!! Thank God for a franchise to still observe they're values and stand up for what they believe in and proclaim Jesus Christ!
We as Christians should not be outraged by this stance of the gays, because we know the devil will use anyone and anything he can to bring down the Christians and the values true to the bible. Instead we should keep proclaiming the truth and bring this nation to repentance!
So When Jacob took both his second cousins as wives and their hand maidens, at both wives requests, that was Gods plan for marriage? So when God demands that a woman marry her rapist, That is Gods plan for marriage? When a woman is not a virgin on her wedding night God demands that she be stoned to death. You see the bible is nothing more then a Jewish fairy tale book. It is fine if you want to use that for you life but you have no right to impose your sharia law upon me, my family and my life. Keep your religion out of my life, and out of the laws I have to live under.
Amen!
I'm sorry, how is it out of line for people to boycott a commercial enterprise for taking a discriminatory stance but just fine for our fast food restaurants to dictate our personal lives?
Thank you Chic-Fil-A for standing for Godly principles. God will Bless you for this.Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation but sin is a reproach to any people. A lot of people today are deceived by the devil because they abandoned God. They don't realize what it took Jesus Christ to wash away and cover our sins. It took His very own life while here on earth in order that He could pay the penalty of our sin which is DEATH and Hell . Jesus provided a way for us to enter Heaven when He rose victorious from death. Heaven is a Holy Place where there is no sin so Jesus had to sacrifice Himself in order to bring us there if we repent and ask for forgiveness of our sins. So don't love sin if you want to go to Heanen.
High on God. All you use your religion for is to feel superior to everything you're not.